But I
have a letter from Aunt Emeline and she can't come to stay with you
children while daddy and I go out West."
"Aunt Emeline not come?" repeated Freddie.
"No, dear. She thinks she is too old to look after you four lively
youngsters. And perhaps she is right. I wouldn't want to make too much
work for her."
"Aunt Emeline not coming!" said Freddie again in a thoughtful voice.
"Ho! Then I go and get a cookie!"
Nan and Bert burst out laughing.
"What's the matter?" asked their father and mother, as Freddie slipped
down out of his mother's lap, into which he had climbed, and started
for the kitchen to find Dinah. "What made you laugh, Bert?" asked his
mother.
"Oh, I guess Freddie must have heard Nan and me talking about Aunt
Emeline not letting us have anything to eat except at meal time,"
replied Bert. "And, now she isn't coming, he thinks he can have a
cookie whenever he wants it."
"Oh, I see!" and Mr. Bobbsey smiled. "Well, Aunt Emeline may be
strict, but she is a very good housekeeper.
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